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Originally Posted by BradZax
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At no point did time change.
What about those two drivers passing each other makes time go slower for them, than me, sitting at the bus stop.
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Well, in a very very simplified explanation: if you are sitting at the speed of light, (constant rate) and the drivers are accelerating faster than that rate, they are travelling faster through space, and therefore slower through time. Think of Quicksilver scene in XMen Days of Future Past (great Time Dilation scene IMO)... He is literally experiencing more time than the people moving slower through space.
Einstein's theory has been long confirmed to be accurate -
The Hafele-Keating experiment (1971) showed that an atomic clock placed on an airplane travelling the same direction as the Earth's rotation ticks slower than a clock travelling the opposite direction.
EDIT: I just read your last line, and I'm not sure if you've read much on this, or have just casually browsed a few things and formed a concrete opinion on it. That's the part I alluded to earlier that concerns me. Either way, I'm going to bow out of this convo - but I wish you luck in your learning endeavors! In the words of Bill Nye: Science rules!